more devious
Example Sentences
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The player gets played only when Dawson is challenged by a trickster even more devious than her.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 25, 2025
She casually schemes to win a coveted Ivy League recommendation, only to find herself outmaneuvered by an even more devious and entitled senior.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 18, 2022
I was trying to find ways to address it — how proud Africans were in Brazil, and how that works as a shield against the more devious side of Brazilian culture.
From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2020
Here’s a question most anyone who learns I am researching confidence artists asks me: Are con artists clinical psychopaths—or are they just slightly more devious versions of our more conniving selves?
From Slate ● Feb. 22, 2016
The capture of the dormice would prove an even more devious avenue to the conquest of Redwall, provided he played his cards right.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
